. Review the photoessay entitled "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation" published by the New York Times. The link is posted below. If you do not have access to it because of the NYT paywall, you can set up a free NYT account using your ISU email account.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/travel/ghosts-of-segregation.html (Links to an external site.)
- Consider the question posed by photographer Richard Frishman's in the photoessay: "Does such erasure remedy the inequalities and relieve the suffering caused by systemic racism? Or does it facilitate denial and obfuscation?"
- Write an essay that responds to Frishman's question above, discussing both South Africa and the United States. More simply, Frishman is asking the following questions: What do we lose and gain if we highlight the histories of segregation in the U.S. and South Africa? What do we lose and gain if we erase or ignore those histories?